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1. TRAQS.me Tools for Reporting & Analysis of the Quantified Self May 27th, 2011 Eric Blue Blog: http://eric-blue.com Website: http://traqs.me Twitter: @ericblue

2. What is the Quantified Self? A brief definition Personal history of self-tracking My gadgets FitBit, Withings, Zeo GPS (Qstarz) TRAQS.me My personal project to help “Track Me” Early days – data scraping (Fitbit “Hacks”) Technology overview Current features Future plans Overview 2

3. Multiple Terms The Quantified Self Personal Informatics Life Logging Self-Knowledge through numbers Analyze trends and set goals to improve yourself Recording of daily activities (fitness, sleep, geolocation) Monitoring and display of information from various devices, services, and applications You could also call it Mathematics of Personal Development 3 What is the Quantified Self?

4. [1999-2007] I started “tracking” like many average people Recording workouts and weight Started with writing down on paper Gradually evolved to spreadsheets Experimented with multiple software applications for fitness tracking (e.g. CrossTrainer.ca) 4 Personal History of Self-Tracking [1]

5. [2004-2010] A new aspect of tracking emerged with knowledge management Spent many years researching and ultimately building my own homegrown personal, semantic wiki (My Personal Memex Project) Tracking journal entries, travel logs/trips, books I’ve read, research notes, dream journals, workouts, etc. Very sophisticated, but can be high maintenance (data entry) Discovered the amazing work of Gordon Bell (“Total Recall”) and his own Memex/Tracking project – MyLifeBits This led to my discovery of the “Quantified Self” trend and a new tracking passion evolved 5 Personal History of Self-Tracking [2]

6. [2010-Present] Quantifying “Me” Jan 2010 – WiThings wireless scale for weight tracking Apr 2010 – Started using my FitBit for activity tracking Aug 2010 – Started using MyZeo for sleep tracking Oct 2010 – Started using DailyBurn for calorie counting All this data! Now what to do with it?? 6 Personal History of Self-Tracking [3]

7. Fitbit – http://www.fitbit.com Used for overall fitness tracking Total steps, distance, calories burned Logging ‘activities’ / workouts Occasional sleep tracking Use premium analytics for goal setting 7 My Gadgets - FitBit

8. WiThings – http://withings.com Used for weight management Wireless “Wi-Fi” enabled scale Tracks weight (lbs) Tracks body composition (fat %, BMI) Frequently use iPhone app to monitor progress and trends 8 My Gadgets – WiThings Scale

9. My Zeo – http://myzeo.com Used for sleep tracking Tracking overall sleep health ZQ score Tracks total time spent sleeping Breaks down normal/deep/REM sleep 9 My Gadgets - Zeo

10. Qstarz - http://www.qstarz.com/ Used for location tracking Stores GPS coordinates every 5 secs Gets precise latitude, longitude Speed and elevation data Saves waypoints and track data Tracking since 9/2010 – 700K coordinates! 10 My Gadgets – Qstarz GPS

11. My personal project to help “Track Me” Tools for Reporting & Analysis of the Quantified Self (me) Consolidates data from various devices and services Performs analysis on data and provides visualizations and reports 11 TRAQS.me – Overview

12. I have all these gadgets, now how do I get the data?! Having a copy of my own data is key. Wrote “scripts” and API wrappers to download FitBit In April 2010 there was no API and I created my own (“Fitbit Hacks”) project – Perl API (GitHub+ CPAN). Created an unofficial CSV export feature Fitbit now has an official API. Zeo Open/Documented API Wrote Perl MyZeo API (GitHub) Withings Open/Documented API Wrote perl script to download (not published yet) 12 TRAQS.me – Early Days

13. OK, I have data, now what to do with it?! Woke up, jumped out of bed and had my “epiphany” of my own Fitness Tracking program 13 TRAQS.me – Technology Overview [1]

14. Data collection scripts Primarily written in Perl using API wrappers I’ve created Data storage Store all data in MySQL; Easy to write SQL and generate reports Web Interface / Presentation Java-based: Spring 3.X, Tomcat Google for Visualization and Maps 14 TRAQS.me – Technology Overview [2]

15. Dashboard Historical stats Activity score, calories burned, distance, sleep, etc. Chart and bar graph visualizations Daily Snapshot of the day Geolocation GPS track stats and track log using Google Maps Intraday stats Hourly charts for activity and sleep data 15 TRAQS.me – Feature [Dashboard]

16. 16 TRAQS.me – Feature [Dashboard] 1 Historical stats Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly views Score, Hours Active, Distance, Calories, Weight and Sleep

17. 17 TRAQS.me – Feature [Dashboard] 2 Daily stats Activity Score, Steps, Distance, Calories Burned, Sleep Time, Times Awoken

18. 18 TRAQS.me – Feature [Dashboard] 3 Geo stats Track log stats (distance, speed, elevation) Google maps visualization

19. 19 TRAQS.me – Feature [Dashboard] 4 Intraday stats Hourly breakdown for activity and sleep

20. 20 TRAQS.me – Feature [Reports] Reports Table data (Google Visualization) for SQL generated reports Activity reports Breakdown by year/month/day Fitness records Geolocation reports Geo analysis to find “top places” and tally total visits and last visited Reverse geocoding to lookup addresses Weight reports

21. 21 TRAQS.me – Feature [Reports] 1

22. 22 TRAQS.me – Feature [Reports] 2

23. 23 TRAQS.me – Feature [Maps] Maps Query “Top Places” and filter based on latitude/longitude or GeoHash precision Can find places that I stay at for more than x minutes Proximity searching for Top Places and tracks Click on a point on the map or input a name, select the RADIUS, and dates last visited will be marked View tracklog for a given date Plot as a polyline or as individual markers with date/time, speed, elevation and address info Ability to specify density of points and other filtering options

24. 24 TRAQS.me – Feature [Maps] 1

25. 25 TRAQS.me – Feature [Maps] 2

26. 26 TRAQS.me – Future Plans Goal #1: Build the Tool for myself Features Integration with other devices Garmin heart rate monitor Import MyZeo sleep data Import workout data from iFitness application and my previous workout software Many more visualization options and reports Goal setting, motivation and behavior Releasing to the public Release certain features and code as open source Considering social website/service Considering future market needs and solutions

27. 27 TRAQS.me – Additional Info Blog My blog is a mixture of posts on technology, personal development, knowledge management, philosophy, mind mapping, and self tracking Visit http://eric-blue.com Twitter @ericblue Website Contains this presentation and links to a demo (coming soon) Check back often for updates: http://traqs.me